The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

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"A genuine castle sim that is complex, colorful and can fit on a floppy disk. A lot more building options than the new sequel with the fear factor system"

About This Game

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Story

With 21 missions to test your mettle and four renegade lords to defeat, it is up to you to reunite medieval England and take back your lands from the treacherous Rat, Pig, Snake and Wolf. Missions range from breaking sieges and capturing enemy castles to raising gold and holding off enemy attacks. Also featured is a full economic campaign, tasking players to gather resources and build weapons within the time limit.

HD Edition

With new high resolution graphics you have more control over your soldiers than ever before. The new HD battlefield view allows you to zoom out and play in real-time, with the whole map on one screen. Advance on the castle gates while flanking the enemy from behind, feign retreat and lead your foe into a deadly trap or just sit back and watch the destruction unfold.

Features

Join the fight for medieval England as you drive back the forces of the villainous Wolf.

Design and build your very own castle, with a working economy and brutal killing zones.

I really liked the economic system of the game, the production chain is just awesome, and you can actually man your walls and towers with soldiers; each kind of unit has particular strenghts and weaknesses (like swordmans which are really slow, can't fill moats and can't climb ladders); the campaign is fun and quite difficult (I still have to finish the last mission on easy difficulty)

PROs-Challenging AI;-The game crashed once in 10 years;-The scenaries are quite beautiful;-Lots of different uses of engineers-You can light almost everything on fire (for pyros)-Try to run the game on Christmas and 10 days before-The game will warn you if you play for too long (I really love this stuff)-Fantastic economic and popularity sistem, with its production chain (like wheat->flour->bread, and you can see the people working)-Awesome soundtracks-Castles architecture-You need to store or buy weapons to recruit soldiers

CONs-Everytime I run this game it makes me feel old :D but is still a lot of fun-Drunkards and children that will stand against your will to build large things

Stronghold... I played it around 8 years ago and buyed it now on Steam and i still love it!

It's old (14 years) but still very fun and gives me a nostalgic feeling.I don't know if the graphics were good at 2001 but i like them and now with the HD edition you can play the game in higher resolutions up to 2560x1600 which is very good.Also the game music is awesome and fits perfectly in this game.

If you like to build castles you should definitely buy this game and also you should try Stronghold Crusader (not Stronghold Crusader 2) because its awesome too, if not the best of all Stronghold games!( ´・ω・`)